Koichiro Kurita


Joshua Tree, 2003
"Each surface has a connecting border in mysterious ways. And in those expanses, all the things and phenomena including living things exist in time as independent entities."
Koichiro Kurita, Joseph Bellows

Ted Berrigan


Alex Katz - Ted Berrigan, 1967
Wikipedia - "A telling reflection on the era that produced it, The Sonnets beautifully weaves together traditional elements of the Shakespearean sonnet form with the disjunctive structure and cadence of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Berrigan's own literary innovations and personal expreiences."
Wikipedia, epc, PENNSOUND

Fairfield Porter


July,1971
Wikipedia - "Fairfield Porter (June 10, 1907 - September 18, 1975) was an American painter and art critic. He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter and the brother-in-law of federal Reclamation Commissioner Michael W. Straus."
Wikipedia, Watercolor Artists, Parrish

White Flower Farm


"Included are classic Trumpets in shades of yellow, gold, cream, and white; Large Cups and Small Cups in great variety with petals and ruffled cups; members of the delicate and graceful Poeticus class; some Split-coronas; fragrant Jonquilla hybids holding smaller flowers; and Tazetta hybrids bearing clusters of sweet flowers on each stalk."
White Flower Farm

Pina Bausch


Cafe Muller
Wikipedia - "...Pina Bausch (born July 27, 1940 in Solingen, Germany) is a modern dance choreographer and a leading influence in the development of the Tanztheater style of dance."
Wikipedia, Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts, Ballet Magazine, npr, Video

Sheela Gowda


Collateral, 2007
Steidl - "Sheela Gowda's art resides within a space between the local and the global. Her sculpltural installations are comprised of such simple materials as cow dung and ash, but each piece is undeniably monumental in its scale and content."
Stiedl

Gerard Cambon


Judy A. Saslow Gallery - "Gerard Cambon is a self-taught artist living and working in Paris creating evocative constructions composed primarily of found materials."
Judy A. Saslow Gallery, Gerard Cambon

The Clash


Wikipedia - "The Clash were an English punk rock band, active from 1976 to 1986, part of the original wave of UK punk. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, funk, rap, dub, rock and roll and rockabilly."
Wikipedia, Don J Whistance's, The Clash, Wikipeda - Joe Strummer, YouTube, (1), (2), (3),

Fazal Sheikh


Afghan Images, 1998
"Fazal Sheikh is an artist-activist who uses photography to create a sustained portrait of different communities around the world, addressing their beliefs and traditions, as well as their political economic problems."
Fazal Sheikh, Utata Tribal Photography

Chrysler Building


"The building is clad in white brick and dark gray brickwork is used as horizontal decoration to enhance the window rows."
Chrysler Building, 1930-1931

Rudy Burckhardt


Street Dance
New York University grey Art Gallery - "Before World War II, American art was generally considered provinciial and unsophisticated. Artists in New York worked in isolation, in spartan conditions, without public recognition. Paris, which had been cented of the art world since the nineteeth century, still reigned."
New York University, "Rudy Burckhardt - An Afternoon in Astoria", artcritical.com, Smithsonian: Archives of American Art, Rudy Burkhardt's Maine

Carole Pierce


Water Cloud
"The painting of Carole Pierce resuit from a lifelong fascination with the sky. They have the appearance of landscape, but the artist concerns herself, not with the solidity of the land, but the elusiveness of mist, shadow and light."
Donnna Seager Gallery, Carole Pierce Artist Studio

May 1968 in France


Wikipedia - "May 1968 is the name given to a series of student protests and a general strike that caused the eventual collapse of the De Gaulle government in France. The vast majority of the protesters espoused left-wing causes, but the established leftist political institutions and labor unions distanced themselves from the movement."
Wikipedia, Paris May-June 1968, Guardian, Guy Debord -Wikipedia, Bureau of Public Secrets, Situationist International Online, Demand the Impossible!

Winding the Maypole


Barbara Marlow Irwin - "In celebration of my birthday, I collect post cards of chidren winding the Maypole. Here are some examples."
Barbara Marlow Irwin

Thierry de Mey, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker


"Thierry De Mey, born in 1956, is a composer and filmmaker. ... He has often been more than a composer for the choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus and his sister Michele Anne De Mey, offering his precious collaboration in the invention of 'formal strategies' - to use a favourite expression of his." Hannah Dennison.
One Flat Thing, reproduced, Wikipedia, Walker Art Center, Rosas, Jessica Rychewaert Table Music by Thierry De Mey

Gertrude Kasebier


The Clarence White Family "Sunshine in the House", 1913
Lee Gallery - "Gertrude Kasebier, while studying painting in her late thirties, shifted her interests to photography. With a minimum of professional training, she decided to become a portrait photographer and opened a studio in 1897."
Lee Gallery, Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc.

Selenography


Wikipedia - "Selenography is the study of the surface and physical features of the Moon. Historically, the principal concern of selenographists was the mapping and naming of the lunar maria, craters, mountain ranges, and other various features." BibliOdyssey.
Selenography, Linda Hall: Johann Leonard Rost

Jordan Wolfson


Still Life with Flowers II, 2008
"My painting occurs in relation to presence - the presence in a room, in between things, in open spen space, in light."
Jordan Wolfsom

Alexey Titarenko


"Alexey Titarnko was born in St. Petersburg in 1962. Since 2005 he has lived and worked in both his beloved native city and in New York."
Alexey Titarenko

Elena Kalis


*17
"Living with my family in a small island community in The Bahamas, life strongly influenced by the flow of nature and a freedom of the senses."
Elena Kalis, PBase

Kamil Vojnar


"Presented here is selection from my recent wotk. It's photographs, printed on thin Japanese paper, mounted to canvas or printed on heavy Epson, Ultrasmooth Fine Art Paper, painted on lightly with oils and varnished and wax."
Kamil Vojnar, Photo Arts

Cosmic Collisions Galore

Hubble Site - "Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and majestic island worlds of glittering stars."
Hubble Site

DigiCam


Edwin Armstrong
"A word about dates. When known, the earliest applicable date is shown. This is usually the date of introduction, announcement, or when the camera first appeareed at one of the various technical shows."
DigiCam

Tim Mitchard


"These are the Sea Forts, that were used to defend London in World War Two. They are off the North Kent coast in the Thames Estuary."
flickr, The Utatan

'Charlie Rose' by Samuel Beckett

Andrew Filippone Jr. - "Something has happened to PBS favorite 'Charlie Rose'. The erudite conersations and sober intellectualism have been replaced by an absurd world where illogic, inane dialogues, and open hostility rule."
YouTube

The Lighthouse Directory


"The Lighthouse Directory is research and study concerning lighthouses and efforts to preserve those lighthouses."
University of North Carolina

Eduardo Paolozzi


See Them? A Baby's Life is not all Sunshine, 1972
The Independent Group - "His particular perspective was influenced by his childhood experiences of technology and the populer. Growing up above his parents' ice-cream shop and experiencing the culture of the street and the cinema."
The Independent Group, Flowers, artnet

Kenward Elmslie


Wikipedia - "Kenward Gray Elmslie (born April 27, 1929) is an American writer, performer, editor and publisher associated with the New York School of poetry."
Kenward Elmslie, PENNSOUND, Jacket #7, Wikipedia

Lou Reed


Plazza Della Repubblica
Wikipedia - "Lou Reed (born March 2, 1942) is an influential American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. He first came to prominence as the guitarist and principal singer-songwriter of The Velvet Underground (1965-1973)."
Wikipedia, (1), Lou Reed, Rolling Stone, (1), YouTube, Video results

Katherine Gulla


hyde park - "Natural and artificial light causes an ever-changing array of shadows and reflections. These images are part of our environment."
hyde park, Gallery Kayafas, Danforth Museum of Art

Robert Gardner: Borroro male beauty


"August 23rd 1978 - We stopped momentarily this aftenoon to discuss in which direction to go. We were trying to find the camp of a man who is presently accompanying us."
Luminous Lint

Luis Gonzalez Palma


No Querla Hablar de esos Anos
"In Guatemata, Luis Gonzalez Palma (born 1957, Guatemala) studied archition, painting, and cinematography, in addition to photography."
Throckmorton Fine Art, Lisa Sette Gallery, Light and darkness...

Hugo Bastidas


Las Madonnas, 1996
"The approach behind the artwork is firstly visual and secondly conceptual. I apply paint to the surfacewith quick even short strokes that build and amonunt to the image."
Hugo Xavier Bastidas, Boreas, artnet

Pere Ubu


Wikipedia - "Pere Ubu are a rock music group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975. ... The group is named after Pere Ubu ('father Ubu') , the protagonist of Ubu Roi ('Ubu, the King'), a play by Frenchman Alfred Jarry."
Wikipedia, Pere Ubu Biography, Trouser Press, Pere Ubu's Avant Garage Online, YouTube

Lidwien van de Ven


Documenta/Kassel - "The artist presents her monumental photography as digitally printed posters mounted directly onot the gallery walls."
Documenta/Kassel, 1

Peter Henry Emerson


Wikipedia - "Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936) was a Cuban-born photographer. His photographs are early examples of promoting photography as an art form. He is known for taking photographs that displayed natural settings."
Wikipedia, Science & Society

Robert Wilson


Wikipedia - "Robert Wilson (born 4 October 1941) is an internationally acclaimed American avant-garde stage directon and playwright who has been called '[America]'s - or even the world's - foremost vanguart theater artist'. Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer."
Wikipedia, Robert Wilson, Design Museum, Red Planet, MASS MoCA, NYT, YouTube, 1

The Notebook of William Blake


"William Blake is famous today as an imaginative and original poet, painter, engraver, and mystic. But his work, especially his poetry, was largely ignored during his own lifetime, and took many years to gain widespread appreciation."
British Library

Aneta Grzeszykowska & Jan Smaga


"Over the course of two years, Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga created series of ten highly unusual photographic prints: each piece documents the entirety of an apeatment, including its occupants, from a normally unavailable perspective - from above."
Robert Mann Gallery

Frank Gohlke


"The windows of our hilltop apartment gave onto a comprehensive view of the Midway, a mile-long stretch of grain elevators and railroad tracks on the boundary between the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul."
Frank Gohlke

Richard Estes


"Richard Estes (born May 14, 1932 in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American painter who is best known for his photorealistic paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes."
Wikipedia, Galeria artelibre

The Japanese Garden


"We have added a large new section on the individual elements of a Japanese garden, and have updated the bibliography and the section on internet links."
Bowdoin College

Michael Nyman


Wikipedia - "Michael Laurence Nyman (born March 23, 1944, London) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, perhaps best known for the many scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway."
Wikipedia, Michael Nyman, Stage & Screen Online, Video results

Tim Porter


Kyu Furukawa Teien - January 21, 2006
"A paradise in an urban tangle of overhead wires, grey buildings and sullen commuters, the gardens of Tokyo are a tangible, organic connection with Japan's rich and fabled past."
Tim Porter

Neo Kekkonen


"As long as I can remember, I've been interested in expessing myself. Currently my means of doing that are electronic music and photography, with occasional forays into video and some other things."
28 Hours in Jyvaskyla, YouTube

Jane Hammond


Fallen, 2004
"The leaves in Fallen have been made by the artist, they are not real leaves. They are based on leaves gathered in the Autumns of 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 from Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, Washington, California and Hawaii."
Jane Hammond, Wikipedia

Wendell Berry


Wikipedia - "Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934, Henry County, Kentucky) is an American man of lettres, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays."
Wikipedia, Academy of American Poets, CROSSCURRENTS: "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine", Sierra Club: "For Love of the Land", Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky

Satyagraha


The Metropolitan Opera - "Philip Glass's landmark 1980 work, set to text from the ancient Sanskrit scripture Bhagavad Gita, is a moving account of Mahatma Gandhi's formative experiences in South Africa, which transformed him into a great leader."
Met Opera, Classical 90.5, Philip Glass, New York Times

Kathryn Frund


Radical Acts
"My paintings and assemblages address the relationship between man and the environment through the use of symbolic landscapes."
Chase Gallery

Old Photos of Japan


Yokohama 1910s
"Old Photos of Japan shows photos Japan between the 1860s and 1930s. In 1854, Japan opened its doors to the outside world for the first time in more than 200 years."
Old Photos of Japan

Peter Beard


Elephants Memory, 1972/2008
"The beautiful play period has come to an end. Millions of years of evolutionary processes have been destroyed in the blink of an eye."
Peter Beard